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Title: On K--g W---ms returne out of Flanders
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1695 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satirical comment on the enthusiastic reception given to William III in 1695
on his return home after the victory at Namur
Title: The royal folly. 1698
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1698 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Lighthearted satire on the visit to Europe of Peter the Great, Tsar of
Russia.
Title: In praise of nobody. 1698
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1698 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Satire on human follies and vices, using the device of praising the virtues
of personified Nobody
Title: Musick
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, welcoming the
power of music to gladden and soothe a soul troubled by grief and cares, but
finding its effects short-lived
Title: The nine. 1690
Author: Sheffield, John; Earl of Mulgrave, Marquess of Normanby, Duke of
Date(s): 1690 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: An attack on the nine members of the Council (identified in the margins)
appointed during William III's absence from England.
Title: The Preston prisoners to the ladies about court & town, by way of comfort
from C.W. to W.T. to the tune of To all the ladies etc [A song (headline)]
Author: Wogan, Charles
Attribution: C.W.
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Expressing continued love for society ladies, and drawing comfort from their
reciprocated love, despite imprisonment. Sent as consolation from Newgate
Prison to a fellow-prisoner William Tunstall in the Marshalsea. Cf BCMSV 880
and 881.